Mealey's ( November 5, 2019, 1:30 PM EST) -- CLEVELAND — A federal judge in Ohio on Oct. 31 ruled that personal jurisdiction exists in a breach of contract and trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against two former employees of a retail mortgage lender under Ohio’s long-arm statute because the lender has sufficiently pleaded evidence showing that the requirements of the statute have been met and that exercising personal jurisdiction over them comports with the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution (CrossCountry Mortgage Inc. v. Joseph Messina, et al., No. 19-1021, N.D. Ohio, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 189380)....